Bring It All Together (Quarto)

This lesson is called Bring It All Together (Quarto), part of the R in 3 Months (Fall 2025) course. This lesson is called Bring It All Together (Quarto), part of the R in 3 Months (Fall 2025) course.

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Learn More

If you want to learn more about Quarto, check out these resources:

Get Started with Quarto, workshop materials by Tom Mock (2022)
From R Markdown to Quarto, workshop materials by Andrew Bray, Rebecca Barter, Silvia Canelón, Christophe Dervieu, Devin Pastor, and Tatsu Shigeta

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Ally de Alcuaz • September 29, 2023

How do you make sections?

Gracielle Higino Coach • September 29, 2023

Hi Ally! Good question! Creating sections is a great way to organize your script. You can do that with the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on the Mac). You can read more about sections and folding sections here: https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/200484568-Code-Folding-and-Sections-in-the-RStudio-IDE

Dalton Bailey • April 9, 2024

Is there any control over fonts/font size? Or is everything in Quarto pretty much locked in as is?

David Keyes Founder • April 9, 2024

Nope! You can customize a ton! How you do so depends on the output format. Take a look at the lessons that started with "Making Your Reports Shine" in the Going Deeper lessons and you'll get examples of how to do so for PDF, HTML, and Word.

Lilly Kennedy • May 2, 2024

Is there a way to add comments into your code in quarto like there is with r script? since the # here is indicating a heading instead of a comment

Gracielle Higino Coach • May 2, 2024

Hi Lilly! If you want to add a comment outside of code chunks, you can use the following notation:

<!--- your comment --->

This won't show in your rendering, and you can use that to review Quarto/Markdown documents from others. [= We have some Quarto documents that use comments in our #challenges-exercises channel on the Discord server. You can download them and render them to see what it looks like!

David Keyes Founder • May 2, 2024

Also, just to add: if you start a line in a code chunk with a hash sign, it will become a comment. Only text not in code chunks with a hash sign at the start becomes a header.

Raouf Kilada • October 22, 2024

Hey David, I tried the ggplot that you used in your video:

ggplot(data = avg_r_enjoyment,
       mapping = aes(x = avg_enjoyment,
                     y = qcountry,
                     labeel = avg_enjoyment_two_digits)) +
  geom_col(fill="#6cabdd") +
  geom_text(hjust 1.2,
           color = "white",
           fill="black") +
  theme_minimal()

and I got this error:

ggplot(data = avg_r_enjoyment,
       mapping = aes(x = avg_enjoyment,
                     y = qcountry,
                     labeel = avg_enjoyment_two_digits)) +
  geom_col(fill="#6cabdd") +
  geom_text(hjust 1.2,
Error: unexpected numeric constant in:
"  geom_col(fill="#6cabdd") +
  geom_text(hjust 1.2"

any suggestions? Thanks

Gracielle Higino Coach • October 24, 2024

Hi Raouf! It looks like there's an "=" missing after hjust. Can you try this instead:

ggplot(data = avg_r_enjoyment,
       mapping = aes(x = avg_enjoyment,
                     y = qcountry,
                     labeel = avg_enjoyment_two_digits)) +
  geom_col(fill="#6cabdd") +
  geom_text(hjust = 1.2,
           color = "white",
           fill="black") +
  theme_minimal()

Raouf Kilada • October 24, 2024

Thank you...It worked

Yvonne Friederich • November 5, 2025

Thank you very much for the great introduction to Quarto! For now I just have one question: how can I collaborate with colleagues who don’t use R or RStudio when working on reports, articles or similar documents? Many publications go through several rounds of revision, and exporting a Word document, sending it for feedback, and then manually incorporating all the changes can be quite time-consuming, especially with multiple revision cycles.

Is there a way to make this collaboration easier, or even partially automate the process of integrating feedback, without having to manually correct every sentence?

David Keyes Founder • November 5, 2025

Being able to incorporate feedback from non-Quarto users into a Quarto document has been the holy grail for a long time. Unfortunately, it's something that has never really been achieved.

In the past, there was an attempt to create a package called {redoc} to do just this. Its development stalled (though I've heard rumors it may come back to life).

I've also seen people render to HTML and then use Hypothesis to enable non-R users to add comments (details on that here.

So, to answer your question, there isn't a great solution to this, unfortunately!

Gracielle Higino Coach • November 6, 2025

I agree with David! I think the easiest way is to have collaborative writing and revisions using tools people already use (GDocs or Word) and then transfer the final text to your Quarto document.

You can use collaborative Markdown tools like HackMD if people are slightly comfortable with plain text writing - you could take care of formatting and then it'd be easier to transfer that to Quarto later.

On this thread you can see a great discussion about this topic and maybe get more ideas!